Food/Menu
This is a large menu of an American restaurant.
- Read it and try to find out what you would like to eat.
- Check your knowledge with the exercises.
starters (AmE)/ appetizers
soup of the day:
- freshly made tomato soup
- minestrone (Italian vegetable soup)
- clam chowder (sämige Suppe mit Venusmuscheln)
- garlic bread
- egg rolls (in Chinese restaurants)
salads
(mixed greens, vegetables ≠ lettuce)
Tossed Fresh Baby Greens– mixed greens topped with Julienne vegetables and tomatoes, add Montrachet, Feta, or Gorgonzola cheese
Traditional Caesar Salad –river valley farms romaine lettuce with freshly grated parmesan
Spinach Salad — spinach topped with cheese, fresh strawberries, caramelized pecan nuts and raspberry vinaigrette
Iceberg Salad — A wedge of Iceberg lettuce with raisins, dried cranberries, Montrachet cheese, walnuts and thin red onion slices drizzled with curry ranch dressing
Entrée (AmE) / main dish:
meat
- American hamburger
- cheeseburger
- roast beef
- beef steak (T-bone steak)
- rare done
- medium
- well done
- chicken drumsticks, chicken wings
- chicken schnitzel
- pork chops (cutlet) (very unusual)
fish
- salmon fillet
- shrimps in a basket
pasta (noodles)
- spaghetti with meatballs
- macaroni with cheese
side orders:
- bun and butter
- chips (AmE: French fries)
- baked potato with sour cream
- hash browns (wie Kroketten)
- onion rings
- buttered corn (Maiskolben)
salad
- cole slaw (Weißkohlsalat)
desserts
- apple pie (as good as Granny makes!)
- New York Style cheese cake
- fruit compote in cognac
- ice cream (all flavours)
beverages / drinks
all kinds of freshly pressed fruit juices
sodas:
- coca cola
- root beer
- lemonade
beers:
- draft
- Guinness, Kilkenny
- bottled
- Corona, Fosters
wines:
- red wine
- white wine
- champagne (sparkling wine)
water:
- tap water (free)
- mineral spring water
milkshake, cocoa, coffee
Interactive Exercises
Drag and Drop!
Be careful! A menu is a list of a food you can order. A typical menu consists of different courses. A “Menü” is a set menu or a special dish.
Meals and menus
A synonym for appetizer is starter
After the entrée you get dessert.
Salad is a mix of different fruits or veggies but the veggie itself is called lettuce.
Lunch, breakfast & dinner are meals.
food
Match the words with the pictures!
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iceberg lettuce |
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salad |
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fridge |
Sandwiches are bread with cheese or ham and salad
Hamburgers are McDonalds most famous meal (billions served)
Chips are made out of potatoes
Frankfurters and wieners are famous sausages from Germany
Buffalo wings are not buffalo meat but chicken. Their legs are called drumsticks but you can eat all parts of this bird.
1. Fish and shrimps are sea food.
2. They are sweet, long and yellow.: bananas.
3. This is what you call "Chips" in German!: Crisps
4. I like peanut butter on my sandwich.
5. In England lots of people eat fish and chips.
6. You eat it when you go to the cinema.: pop corn
1. You cook, bake and fry food on it: oven
2. You put the food in pots and pans to cook it.
3. Mushrooms grow in darkness but you put them on
pizza and in salads.
4. If you grill meat in a BBQ you surely need to try out a real
American beef-steak from free range cows.
5. Curry is not a spice but a mixture of many different
herbs and spices from India.
